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Wareham: Novel Technologies For Change
Wareham: Novel Technologies For Change

Fifth-generation Nebraska rancher Jaclyn Wilson, and her family, launched an innovative project using advanced technologies to track cattle as verified digital assets.

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Will a Labor Crisis Push Innovation?

A decade from now, we might look back at this era as the period that finally propelled innovation and integration of labor resource related technologies.

Jared Wareham: Creating More  Buyer Competition
Jared Wareham: Creating More Buyer Competition

Beyond critical factors such as health, head count, evenness and flesh that always matter, it has become important to review Process Verified Programs and their role in cultivating more value add. 

Wareham's daughters helped him gather and sort cows recently.
Jared Wareham: Are Balanced Trait Genetics a Long-Term Answer?

Genetic progress has helped drive our industry forward and each segment along the value chain has benefited from advancements in genetics. Have we moved the needle enough with regard to total beef system profitability?

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Genomics for Stockers?

Hide color and breed character are tools currently available to sort stockers, with little information about genetic potential. But is there a role genomics, or DNA, can play for the stocker operator?

Jared Wareham: Beef On Dairy - Part 2
Jared Wareham: Beef On Dairy - Part 2

There remains much we won’t know about the formidableness of this segment as far as its potential long-term impact on premium groups of cattle from traditional beef production.

Climate Change Initiatives Compete for Ag Resources
Climate Change Initiatives Compete for Ag Resources

Climate change may or may not become a substantial global initiative. Regardless, we can assume it will reach a point where we can no longer ignore our role and place as stakeholders.

Worrying about Fake Meat is a Waste of Valuable Energy
Worrying about Fake Meat is a Waste of Valuable Energy

As we often find out after the fact, energies dedicated to react and repel tactics tend to be wasted. Consumers will ultimately drive demand for any product.

Will Crop Residue Utilization Affect Herd Expansion?
Will Crop Residue Utilization Affect Herd Expansion?

Currently, residue utilization is limited by access and infrastructure. Good fencing around the available biomass resources still in the field tend to be the greatest barrier. If grazing isn’t an option, what then?

The Future of Certified and Verified Beef Products
The Future of Certified and Verified Beef Products

Marketing beef products that carry certain “guarantees” or assurances regarding quality, production standards and resource management will continue to expand.

Miller and Lux cowboys, Cuyama, Calif., circa. 1908
Jared Wareham: One Dirt Road At A Time

Drovers columnist Jared Wareham answers a question he is often asked: "Have you discovered the best places to ranch in America?"

The fallout risk involved with feed¬ing natural cattle is substantial.
Jared Wareham: Selling Program Cattle Requires Right Ingredients

Simply participating in verified programs such as NHTC (Non-Hormone Treated Cattle), Verified Natural, GAP and a multitude of others, isn’t a guarantee of success or profit.

Modern Reality of Crossbreeding
Modern Reality of Crossbreeding

What is crossbreeding’s place or role in the beef industry? What will it look like over the next several decades? I

Participants in the 2019 King Ranch Institute / NCBA Excellence In Ag Leadership Program
Wareham: King Ranch/NCBA Excellence In Ag Leadership Program

Selection for the fourth King Ranch Institute NCBA Excellence in Ag Leadership Program will begin spring of 2020.

The rapidly evolving beef-on-dairy segment has an opportunity to quickly accelerate beef production.
Jared Wareham: The Rapidly Evolving Beef-On-Dairy Segment

The rapidly evolving beef-on-dairy segment has an opportunity to quickly accelerate beef production.

Drovers columnist Jared Wareham: Marketing flexibility represents a growing part of feedyards’ feeder cattle buying strategy.
Can ‘New Generation’ Insight Provide Relief?

Drovers columnist Jared Wareham: Marketing flexibility represents a growing part of feedyards’ feeder cattle buying strategy.

Sometimes, the slightest of differences between groups of feeder cattle can significantly affect their value when sold as fats. Understanding these subtle nuances can help you more effectively market your future calf crops.
A Flexible Marketing Approach Can Pay Off

Sometimes, the slightest of differences between groups of feeder cattle can significantly affect their value when sold as fats. Understanding these subtle nuances can help you more effectively market your future calf crops.

Having the ability to do more with less adequately addresses those two, hard-to-manage business elements: time and labor
Krush Those Margins With Precision

Time and labor resources tend to be some of the biggest challenges faced in production beef agriculture. Technologies that can address both of those key operational elements will eliminate critical efficiency gaps. 

Whichever way you look at it, increasing the opportunity for profit or decreasing the risk for loss, having an advanced genetic “scouting report” on feeders has value.
Jared Wareham: Get With The Program

Whichever way you look at it, increasing the opportunity for profit or decreasing the risk for loss, having an advanced genetic “scouting report” on feeders has value.

Until you know how to coach and enable the next generation, you can’t possibly identify what transcendent “new” skills they have and unleash them.
Managing Millennial Employees Takes Leadership

Instead of pointing out what we view as the major millennial flaws in our employee workforce, we need to find ways to cultivate success through the employee talent that is there takes great leadership and tolerance.

Selling in semi-load groups might be one of the largest discounts that can be removed.
We Live in a Discount World

Value-added programs don’t necessarily add value to a set baseline price. Rather, they begin by removing some of the discount (risk) that buyers assume exist.

Maintaining a resurgent global trade environment is vital for all of agriculture, and more specifically to this readership, the preservation of current and potential beef export markets.
Wareham: The Next Farm Bill Needs Your Attention

Maintaining a resurgent global trade environment is vital for all of agriculture, and more specifically to this readership, the preservation of current and potential beef export markets.